Ken Robinson Quotes
Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
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Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.
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I don't look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They're all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it's part of mine.
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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
